olympic national park – TSPK Outdoors http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com Sat, 26 Aug 2017 04:21:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/04/cropped-cropped-TSPK-Logo-1-32x32.png olympic national park – TSPK Outdoors http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com 32 32 The Marginally Epic Journey http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com/2017/04/23/the-marginally-epic-journey/ http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com/2017/04/23/the-marginally-epic-journey/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2017 02:12:16 +0000 http://outdoors.thestovepipekid.com/?p=17 This is THE Journey. You know, the one that people plan on doing their whole lives . . .or in my case six months. This trip is actually what affected the creation of this whole website, but that’s a story for another day. Anyway, The Marginally Epic Journey is “marginal” because it’s only taking a small chunk of time from our ordinary lives, which naturally reduces the scope of its “epic” nature. We will be spending eight days crossing the Olympic National Park from West to East, mostly along the Pacific Northwest Trail. At this point there will be four of us participating in this daring adventure. The main players are myself, my father in law “Mr. AMX68” and his son, “The Long Lost M” with his boyfriend “Super B”. If I had written this three months ago when the planning phase began I would have included my brother in law “The Big J” and a soon to be brother in law “The Dark Haired W”. As it stands they’ve both dropped out due to the length of time off needed. “M” and “B” will probably be out as well as the time draws near. In the end it may be just Mr. AMX and me. The journey will still be epic, though we be few.

I’ve placed a few sponsorship requests with equipment companies and will be reviewing items I gather for the trip as I add them to my arsenal.

UPDATE 07/10/17: As predicted Mr. AMX and myself will be the only souls amongst our cadre to wander into the heart of wilderness-ness. Time and other constraints pulled everyone else out. On a high note we both have our itinerary apporoved by the Park and will be in our way early on the morning of our trip. I was only able to secure one product from the many companies I contacted, so I’ve scrubbed the promotional aspect this trip and will try again on future outings. I will continue to review my camping items as I use them.

UPDATE 07/29/17: The Marginally Epic Journey unfortunately came to a premeture end. Mr. AMX and I did enjoy the loop around the 7 lakes basin and along the Sol Duc River for two days of a good twenty five miles. It was some hard hot hiking up some gnarly terrain but well worth it. With our trip cut dramatically short we are hoping to get some fall hiking trips under our belt before we meet winter. I’ll be posting a gear list of what I took, mostly for myself because I don’t have any readers.

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